Intro to Middle Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods Subcabinet Middle Neighborhood Working Group

Justin Elszasz, Mayor’s Office of Innovation

Friday, February 22, 2019

Our Middle Neighborhoods (based on HMT)

Our middle neighborhoods (median household income 75%-125% of city median income)

Our middle neighborhoods (where middle income-earners could afford to live)

Comparing the definitions

Comparing the definitions

Tier	Population (HMT)	% City Pop (HMT)	Population (Median Income)	% City Pop (Median Income)	Population (Affordability)	% City Pop (Affordability)
distressed	93406	14.8%	226724	35.9%	NA	NA
healthy	158813	25.1%	133709	21.1%	NA	NA
middle	345964	54.7%	237750	37.6%	76318	12.1%

Healthy block groups and lower middle block groups are similar in terms of percent owner-occupied

Neighborhood typologies are strongly correlated with race

Income levels in our middle neighborhoods are well below area’s

Middle neighborhoods have more older homeowners

hmt.tier	Mean % Homeowners 65+	Median % Homeowners 65+
distressed	14.0%	12.6%
healthy	11.9%	9.87%
lower middle	17.2%	15.2%
upper middle	16.8%	15.0%

Total Service Requests per 1,000 Residents

HMT Tier	Population	SR Count	SR’s per 1,000 Residents
distressed	93406	74156	794
lower middle	183631	97962	533
healthy	158813	77773	490
upper middle	162333	70744	436
other	34184	10230	299

Top Service Request Types by HMT Tier

rank	healthy	upper middle	lower middle	distressed	other
1	TRS-Parking Complaint	SW-Bulk Scheduled	SW-Bulk Scheduled	HCD-Sanitation Property	ECC-Vehicle Look Up
2	SW-Bulk Scheduled	HCD-Sanitation Property	HCD-Sanitation Property	SW-HGW	TRS-Parking Complaint
3	HCD-Sanitation Property	TRS-Parking Complaint	SW-Dirty Alley	SW-Dirty Alley	BGE-StLight(s) Out
4	BGE-StLight(s) Out	TRS-Abandoned Vehicle	TRS-Abandoned Vehicle	SW-Bulk Scheduled	TRT-Traffic Signal Repairs
5	SW-Dirty Alley	BGE-StLight(s) Out	TRS-Parking Complaint	SW-Dirty Street	SW-Graffiti Removal Proactive

The upper middle neighborhood tier has gone through a larger swing in narcotics 911 calls

Tier	Calls	Population	Annual Narc CFS per 1,000 Residents	% City Population	% Narc CFS
distressed	45950	93406	123.0	14.8%	47.8%
lower middle	32045	183631	43.6	29.0%	33.3%
other	3409	34184	24.9	5.4%	3.5%
upper middle	10603	162333	16.3	25.7%	11.0%
healthy	4148	158813	6.5	25.1%	4.3%

Narcotics 911 calls point to some hotspots in middle neighborhoods